Connections

Well, it’s been a while since I last make any noise here. For me March is definitely a good month, and as good as it sounds: Sang, the number “3” in cantonise actually sounds like “being alive”. It’s a good number for Chinese anyway, regardless their dialects, background and car that they drove. I can’t say that being busy is something bad, but sometime busy life keeps you thinking: What is the meaning of all these?


You hit the road early in the morning, caught in the jam. Probably forced to have breakfast in the car, beats few yellow lights tying to be in the office before your bosses does. Your phone on the table ringing frantically, everyone is trying to get their job done, by you, through you, inside and outside you. Reluctantly, you drive out underneath hot afternoon sun, bring your sweaty body back into air-conditioned meeting room again. If you are lucky, you will have your say. Sometime we are in the meeting just for the sake of filling up the attendance sheet.

You leave your office after a heavy downpour, greets by occasional flash flood in the city. Basically the whole city just turned into a giant carpark. How if it’s still raining? Amazing view: Cars moving with hazard lights on. Back home, you are fined by your own sister, for failing to clean the floor yesterday.


Ok, most of the statements are my own true story, including the RM 10 fine!!! But of course it doesn’t sounds all that bad, really. While I know the reason and implication of every move I’ve made (generally, but not necessary that conscious every time, mind you), I failed miserably trying to connect everything in my life, so far.

Connection of everything to everything else. Things that revolves around our life. Often our life is defined by people that we know, we met, talked to, fight with, share together, walk along, or at any other moment when our path crossed. You might be in the forest or shopping center, Nepal or London, today or yesterday, anywhere, anytime but still, it’s the people around you that really matters. They made all the difference.


Don’t tell me that you can hide in the cave, stays in your rooms your apartment. While you cannot control what other people does, please don’t blindly follows, or get intimidated. Social peers are the root to many unsolvable illnesses. It’s positive to think that someone else’s is going to do it, why not you? but not everyone else seems to be doing it, why don’t you? When you saw a sign board “Do Not Litter” surrounded by rubbish of all kinds, don’t be surprised. It’s not too difficult, because all you need is the first piece of rubbish, or something looks like one. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Complicated.


Again, having said all that, it doesn’t sound that bad after all. Personally I am quite optimistic since everyone is able to understand the connection, or rather the chain reaction of recent fuel hike (a whopping 30 cents!) to many other things. I’m sure they will be able to understand the connections circulated throughout their life span, their children’s, their future.
Just not yet.


I wish I could convert my thoughts into better words, but that’s all I have now. I mean at least I have some pictures, right? And sometime, I use words to decorate my pictures, just like a frame.

That’s the connection, if you insist.

P/S: Maybe I’m just too tired, too busy. This is an unusual post from me. I’ll get good rest, I’ll get back to normal. Hopefully. Cheers!!! :)